Twitter -> Mastodon: A How To Guide for Dylan Fans
Twitter has been taken hostage and is being systematically destroyed by its new owner. It may survive, it may not. Mastodon is an alternative social platform that is like Twitter, and so a bunch of folks are creating accounts there in case Twitter actually sinks.
(image via Jason Blackeye)
How To Get A Mastodon Account:
Getting a Mastodon account up is essentially the same as signing up for anything else. You click a link, choose a name and password, and customize your profile. Then you follow the people/accounts you want to follow.
There is a website and mobile clients. It’s really an alt-version of Twitter once you get it all setup. There are a few steps to get there.
Choose a Server
The one potentially confusing thing is that unlike Twitter is the fact that Mastodon has many servers so you have to pick which server your account will be one.
So an account like ours, @fmc_dylan.mastodon.online is made up of our ‘handle’ (@fmc_dylan) and our server (mastodon.online).
Think of like a bank br…